Monker wrote:verslibre wrote:Monker wrote:You said they wanted solo WW films. Deep down, that is NOT what they wanted...they only wanted solo WW films so they could move away from Snyders connected universe.
Weird thing to opine. A Wonder Woman movie was WAY, WAY overdue. And they knew that. The previous honchos wanted ONLY Batman and Superman films. The new guard tried
Green Lantern first and tripped. You have to understand after that movie bombed majorly, moneywise, that Zack's vision looked golden. WB/DC even talked up being the "darker side of the coin" to what Marvel was doing, and then they wussed out and backpedaled. Our loss. This is old, old, old, old news, bruh.
Yes, it is "old news". But, the part you say about "wussed out" IMO is really that they looked at the situation and saw that Snyder was headed for disaster and made the smart business decision to avoid it.
Monker wrote:What WB REALLY wanted, and probably still wants, is to be a rival to Marvel.
They already are. You know what the word means?
A rival is an entity that is in a position to take over another entities place. IE: the rival to the heavyweight boxing champion is somebody who can enter the ring with a chance to win. WB is NOT in a position to take over the position that Marvel is in. Nobody is, really.
"A person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity."
(and)
"...who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another."
Essentially, a competitor. There's a reason Marvel and DC are the "Big Two." In both comics and film, DC ruled the roost for decades till it came to a point where Marvel got the edge. But time and again, DC does something that sends shockwaves through the House of Ideas (that's another moniker for Marvel owing to Stan Lee), those somethings being Frank Miller's
The Dark Knight, Alan Moore's
Watchmen, George Pérez's reboot of
Wonder Woman, and so on. Don't forget,
Civil War was the direct result of
BvS.
Bottom line: We need both. I can't imagine having twenty
Ant-Man-flavored movies.
Doctor Strange was a disappointment, too (and with a good director). If the Russos stick around, they need to give them Thor. But they probably won't, because they promised
Thor 4 to Taika.